Paradise Street - The Lost Art of Playing Outside

Forty or so years ago and beyond, it was completely usual to see children 'playing out' in the streets, alleyways and urban wastelands of Britain. Children on roller-skates or bikes, steering go-karts and dolls' prams, playing 'kerbsy', marbles, 'squirty bottles' - often all at once - roamed every housing estate, in happy, rag-tag and unruly little gangs, knocking on doors to retrieve lost footballs, daring each other to 'knock and run', squabbling, eating sweets and being home for tea after hours of unsupervised play.

Nowadays, worries about safety mean that most children are restricted from being alone outside and are quite often glued to a screen instead. Paradise Street offers a documentary history of very different times, with images from leading street photographers forming a joyful and nostalgic record of the lost freedoms of childhood.

Hardback with cloth spine, 128 pages
Measures 16.5 x 20.2 x 1.2cm